Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-12-19
LETTER FROM RICHMOND.

Especial Cor. OF the AlexanQrR GAEETTE.
RICHMOND Va, Dec $3.50 the General
Assembly will not abolish the of1ice Of Reg
lister of Lands. This determination reached
yesterday by majority Of the legislature
puts new life into the con est over that OF
fee and the legislators are being button
holed and interviewed by the friends OF the
several candidates. The fact that Mr.
WingGed now holds the office is something
in bis favor, but that amounts 10 nothing
compared with the influence which is opera.
ting in his favor in the shape of warm per-
sonal friends like Speaker Cardwell and
General Wick ham, who are working strenu.
ously for his re election. MIR. Wingfeld
comes from the coGuty of Hanover and be.
ing an Influential party worker there he can
command ihs support ofthe Hanover dele
gates. 0ho, by the way, have as much inAu-
ence as any other two members OF the Gen
eral Assembly. Mr.. J. D. Graut will get o
good vote il the caucus for this Office. The
Eastern Shore delegates are working to So
euro MIR. Grants election. The other can
didate is Col. W. Il Gaines, of Charlotte.
1t is very apparent that the legislature
will not accept any proposition from Mr..
William l. Royall, the representative and
counsel Of the Foreign bondholders, unless
it comes under the basis Of the Riddeberger
bill. The truth is the Legislators are not
troubling themselves much about the debt
question. They regard The matter as finally
settled Some of them. however, arc in ia
vor Of driving the bondholder5 to the wall,
80 to speak, and it is very likely that there
will be some interesting things said when the
matter comes up for consideration in the General
Assembly, as it will do very shortly. AT the last
session tho republicans were particularly anxious
to make themselves cord on this question, and
the way they did was to vote soiidly against
every democratic measure relative to the debt.
Now since the subject has been virtually removed
from politics. tie republicans arc turning their
attention especially to the tariff. They talk of
tariff to protect the American workingmen and
American industries, but when it gets down to a
vote they go unanimously for the Same tariff the
republican party has encouraged for the past
twenty five years.
The Legislative Committee on Fhh and Game
will have considerable to do this session. There
seems to be vice spread feeling of sympathy for
the toothsome partridge, the bony herring and in
fact fer every species of the finuy trbc on the
part of sportsmcn and fishermen At the last
meeting Of the Senate Committee on Fish and
Game that class of sportsmen called pot hunters"
were condemned, but no suggestol was made as
to how they could be exterminatad. sports.
man from Amelia county, who is here in tho in
teresto new game law, tells hard story on pot
hunter" of his county. The p. h. Joined the Dap
fist Church some time ago, and the Amelia sports
man, in order to show how desperate some pot
hunters are (the one he had reference to particu-
larly), told the Committee on Fish aud Game
that the p. b. when he was baptized brought up
two turtles with his feet and offered them for sale
before he got out of the water. B. P.O.